Chapter 6 5.

5. This was the summer vacation before entering the fifth grade, and Sansan's swimming head was slowly growing.Later she saw photos of that time, wearing a white and blue striped round-neck short-sleeved cotton dress, with her hands in her drooping pockets, her hair obediently covering her ears, and an old black steel wire in her bangs Hairpin, very tanned, with a pale pink glow on either side of the bridge of the nose.She stood cautiously in front of a children's paradise overgrown with weeds, seeming to avoid the camera by looking around, and a little bit proud and happy.Next to it is the date: July 20, 1992.She will always remember some years, for example, in 1999, she first rode a 24-inch broken bicycle to the McDonald's next to the Paramount Cinema to date a male classmate.She locked the car to the railing outside McDonald's.Later, she continued to ride this bicycle until the old dormitory was demolished when she returned to school in the second summer vacation of the university. Find her bicycle from the copper and iron.For example, when Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, she lay on the floor of her grandmother's house sucking a red bean popsicle after finishing her senior high school entrance examination.When the military parade was broadcast on TV, she fell asleep drowsily, the popsicles melted on the floor, and when she woke up, many ants were immersed in sugar water and struggled frantically and happily.For example, in 1993, she went to a key middle school in the city to register, and looked for her name on the blackboard at the school gate.She didn't go to work-study school, did she?Oh, in 1993, in 1993, she forgot the most important thing, didn't she, should she skip it?Wait a little longer, wait a little longer.The climax has only just begun, and there is no rush, and those sad and joyful moments cannot be skipped in a hurry.

So let's start with 1992.This summer, Sansan, Astro Boy and everyone else are growing crazily.She felt that she had grown three centimeters in one summer vacation, and it must be because she secretly followed Astro Boy to swim in the open-air swimming pool of a nearby middle school almost every afternoon.In fact, Sansan has never learned to swim, and she doesn't even have a decent swimsuit, but she is always happy to lie beside the pool in shorts and a vest, watching the tanned Astro Boy swim like a loach. Drill back and forth in the deep pool.On several occasions she was dragged into the water by the Astros screaming, drawing boos from middle schoolers who smoked near the deep end.That summer was really happy. I didn’t have to go to school for two whole months, and the simple summer homework only took half an hour in the morning to finish.Of course, her father gave her a lot of extra copying homework, but she always found many reasons. She could instantly pretend to be listless with a stomachache or head pain, and lay listlessly on the bamboo mat of the sofa bed Sleeping is actually just because I am too tired from playing outside with Astro Boy in the afternoon.Sansan can always rush home before evening, wash the wet shorts and vest in the water bucket and hang them in the patio, and then take out half a watermelon from the refrigerator to eat with a spoon, or Dip Bright ice cubes in Coke and watch the cream bubble up.She was sitting on a small bench in the patio, looking at the green morning glories and creepers, flipping through a novel while drying her hair.When there was no one at home, she looked through all the books at home that her father would not let her read, such as the book "The Curious Case of Lone Island" by Agatha Christie.She even found a page torn from the back cover of "Youth Literature" in the attic, which was a photo of Michelangelo's naked David statue.She remembered that her father lied to her that the last page of that issue of "Youth Literature and Art" had been torn out when it arrived.That year the sun always went down very slowly, the world outside the courtyard gradually became noisy, the adults all came back, the sound of bicycles and shouts from the vegetable market kept coming and going.

But the adults didn't know that the two of them traveled all over Wanhangdu Road and every small alley around Yan's house during the summer vacation.Astro Boy discovered a secret: an alleyway is close to the school's children's playground at the end, and through the holes in the wall, you can see the weeds that are dazzled by the sun, and the Half a seesaw.When Astro Boy tried to climb over, he was scolded by an old man who was reading a newspaper on the second floor next door, so the two of them spit at the old man and rolled their eyes and fled away.One day they even went to Hongdu Cinema, sneaked into the dark and air-conditioned auditorium when the ticket collector was in a particularly good mood, and sat on the high stools in the last row to watch a lecture about Huaihai. Battle movies.The gunfire roared on the black and white screen. After watching it for a long time, I couldn't sit still. When I ran out again, I felt the daylight outside was dazzling.Astro Boy took five yuan from his father's pocket and bought Sansan an electronic watch at the Xinhua Bookstore in Jing'an Temple. It was purple with two little white rabbits tied with bows on it.

"I can't want this, and my mother will kick me out again when she sees it." "I still owe you three yuan, and besides, that watch in your hand is too ugly. Wu Xiaoyun and the others all wear electronic watches." Yes, Wu Xiaoyun is wearing a Casio candy-colored watch, which is said to be bought for her by her mother from Hong Kong.Even the watch in Xing Keke's hand is a pink electronic watch, although it is a street stall, but who cares.But her mother would say disdainfully: "This kind of watch won't go away after three days." So Sansan wears an old mechanical watch worn by her mother. Faux leather strap.Because her wrists were too thin, new holes had to be made in the straps.She has always longed for an electronic watch, and this five-dollar electronic watch is so beautiful that there will be green fluorescence on the surface when it is covered with her hand and placed in a dark place.Although she said "no, no," she couldn't move her eyes from above.It wasn't until Astro Boy put it on her wrist that she reluctantly accepted it.Gosh, the strap is transparent, with a purple rabbit head painted on it, and it fits right on her slender firewood girl wrist, so beautiful.She simply didn't want to touch that ugly old watch with scratched glass again.

But he really shouldn't have met a repeater that day, right?He and his stupid little henchmen had probably just finished swimming, sucking on a saltwater popsicle, and a pack of red-capped Peony cigarettes tucked into their shirt pocket.Fourteen-year-old rascals like himself were already smoking, and soft-shell Peonies and Hardmans were in vogue.At noon in the heat, there were few pedestrians at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore, and a few lazy old men sat under the shade of a tree and played chess.Knowing that Yin was rubbing his wings tirelessly on the lush sycamore tree.There was no wind, and the air was filled with dizzy, restless breath.Sansan felt the sun almost set his hair on fire, and the repeater's thin shirt was sticking wetly to his back.The whole summer, they and Astro Boy were tanned as bright and black as mud eels outside, and they were both growing crazily.Sansan saw that Astro Boy's running shoes had been worn out with a small hole, and the repeater's long trousers were so short that his ankles were exposed.As for herself, so is she.They all grew up too fast that summer, and they were all skinny and frail, their crazy bones almost broke the skin, they kept dreaming about falling from high places, and they kept hitting their noses hard. Woke up in an instant on the mossy concrete grid road, looking out the window at the flashing red flight indicator light on the roof of the Hilton Hotel, still in shock.

That kind of innate premonition of bad things made Sansan hang her head very low, and followed Astro Boy to meet the repeater. "Hey, the watch is very beautiful. I haven't even removed the tag." The repeater suddenly grabbed her wrist just as she passed by.He did it on purpose, he did it on purpose!He is no longer the damned timid firewood hooligan who ran away when he met Astro Boy in the corridor. The boys who had never remembered their names and faces also howled like little wolves.Now the repeater has installed a false front tooth. When he looked closely, he found that the front tooth was gray in color and smaller than the one next to it, as if he had been wronged and squeezed into his uneven mouth. teeth.When he spoke, it seemed that his entire gums were exposed, and the saliva sprayed on Sansan's arms.

"Looking for death, get out of here!" Astro Boy's face showed Sansan's familiar yet frightened expression again, and the mat-like scar was glowing bright pink. "You come out to talk about friends, love girls, shameless." "Never mind your business!" He turned his head, grabbed Sansan's hand, and said, "Xu Sansan, let's go." If it was on a normal day, the repeaters would have just groaned and given up, but now he is a completely different person, stretching his arms out in front of them. I only heard him lower his throat pretending to be mysterious and say: "Astro Boy, my dad said your mother is a scum. Everyone knows your mother is a scum. Do you know why your father divorced your mother? Because she is a mess. Engaging in relationships between men and women. Do you understand what is messing with men and women? She also has a sugar daddy. She looks down on your father who lives in Yan's house, and also looks down on you. Your father has no money at all, and he can't even look down on a wife .My dad said that such a man is incompetent! You are the son of that scumbag, and my dad said you are not much better. I still remember this tooth." He grinned at Astro Boy mouth, biting his lower lip with his gray false tooth in protest.

But before Sansan came back to his senses, Astro Boy had already smashed his head hard on his forehead like a little beast, making a dull, earth-shattering sound.The repeater fell to the ground, and immediately put his hands on his forehead and screamed like a rascal: "I'm going to die, this son of a scumbag is going to kill me. Look, everyone, this son of a scumbag is going to kill me." And the sporadic boys next to them also stomped vigorously and yelled: "Killer, the son of a scumbag killed someone." Something is going to happen!The blood vessels under Sansan's eyelids were throbbing, but she was so cowardly that she didn't even have the courage to stop it.

She wanted to hold back Astro Boy, but the sun was too strong, making everything around her white and shiny, and even the leaves of the palm-sized sycamore trees turned dazzling white.Standing there, she couldn't move at all, couldn't take a step, and could only hear the sound of a repeated student roaring against her eardrum like a broken drum.She was terrified, and her hands and feet were cold.No one dares to mention Astro Boy's mother, right?This is his deathbed.Sansan never asked about his mother.He is moody and moody, and no one knows when he will suddenly get angry, throw all the books on the ground, and jump out from the window of the classroom on the second floor.Does he need the weightless feeling of jumping, does he need to run, or does he need to cry as much as she does?So Sansan watched helplessly as Astro Boy rushed over and kicked the repeater who was paralyzed on the ground, while the arrogant idiot on the ground just rolled around with his head in his arms, yelling hysterically like a real idiot.One or two boys timidly stepped forward to drag Astro Boy.During the melee, no one could see clearly when Astro Boy took out the red scarf that was so dirty that he had never washed it from his pocket.He doesn't wear a red scarf, even in school, he only hangs it crookedly around his neck during the flag-raising ceremony, and then quickly takes it off, scrunches it up and stuffs it in his trousers pocket.But now this dirty red scarf was strangled around the repeater's neck.Astro Boy strangled his neck with the red scarf, and then he really started to get scared, no longer pretending to scream like a pig, but just blindly grabbing the things in his neck with his hands.He didn't know what was strangling his neck, it just hurt and it became difficult to breathe.Sansan saw panic and unprecedented fear in his eyes, as if she once saw a boy with leg cramps in the deep water area in the swimming pool, he did not cry after he was rescued, completely overwhelmed by fear I just sat blankly on the tiles by the pool, with both hands subconsciously but focused on fiddling with the loose rubber bands on the swimming trunks.It wasn't until his mother came in a hurry on a bicycle that he burst into tears, his whole body convulsed from crying, like a tire whose valve core was suddenly pulled out, and it deflated in an instant.

She couldn't move.Everyone was stunned, and even breathing became difficult.As for Astro Boy, he has always been a reckless boy.He is a dangerous man.His shoelaces had come undone in the melee, making his walk draggy, but he didn't hesitate.He strangled the repeater's neck with a red scarf and walked forward without even looking back at the idiot struggling blindly on the ground.Sansan watched the repeater shake his hands trying to hold Astro Boy's legs.His face was flushed red at first, and then spots gradually appeared.She forgot, she forgot for that moment of confusion, whether those suffocating blotches were really purple and covered his face and neck like butterflies.He was going to die, this disgusting screaming idiot was going to die.She always wanted him dead, didn't she?If he died, no one would stop her in the alley after school, no one would throw chewing gum in her hair, and no one would yell "Xu Jialiang is shameless, Xu Jialiang loves boys" in class.But what if he really died?What if he really died?She is Astro Boy's accomplice, she is Astro Boy's accomplice who will never be forgiven.

Sansan didn't remember how she pushed Astro Boy away, to be precise, she slammed her whole body against Astro Boy.All three of them fell on the side of the manhole cover in the small road.She felt her bones ache all over her body, the skin on her knees must have been scratched, and the repeater next to her was lying on the ground coughing like crazy, almost coughing out her lungs, while Astro Boy stared at him without saying a word. Looking at him, I saw that he got up from the ground trembling all over, staggered and ran two steps, his body swayed like a puppet with a broken string and ran forward.Sansan sat on the ground, her dress was covered with mud, because she was too nervous, she felt her wrists on the ground were still trembling, and she was completely speechless.She was only glad that the repeater did not die, and neither did Astro Boy.She didn't have time to think about what would happen tomorrow.She was like the girl who woke up from a nightmare, afraid to close her eyes again, for fear that as soon as she closed her eyes, she would fall into another groggy nightmare again. "The watch is broken." Astro Boy said. He was still clutching the red scarf tightly in his hand, and his fingers were so tightly pinched that he was about to bleed from his palms.When she fell, her wrist hit the side of the street hard, and only then did she see that the LCD screen was cracked, but the numbers inside were still blinking and jumping, but the beautiful plastic watch strap was scratched up.The seam runs through the entire surface, and it looks like a broken watch anyway. "I'll pay you a new one later." "I don't want it. I'm going to wear this. Look, it's still going. It won't break." "I hate him. If I see him again, I will kill him. No one can stop me." "You almost killed him!" Sansan's lips trembled suddenly after saying this, and she couldn't help it, repeating, "You almost killed him, you almost killed him, you almost killed him dead him." "My mother is not like that pig said, she didn't want me, she took me out for dinner every Sunday." "But you almost killed him. I hate you." But this was the last time Sansan and Astro Boy saw repeaters in their childhood.He didn't show up in the classroom on the unnerving back-to-school day, and he didn't show up again until school started.When the head teacher casually said that he transferred to another school in the last school year, and his parents spent a lot of money to transfer him to a good school and planned to study hard to prepare for the graduation exam, Sansan silently breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.She looked back at Astro Boy, and Astro Boy was staring at an overgrown sycamore tree outside the window in a daze.She was wearing an old dress that day, and the sunburned areas on her arms and back were molting, so whenever she had free time she used her fingers to peel, sometimes even a thin layer of skin.The wind blowing in from outside the window carries the lingering smell of this crazy summer, mixed with the faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus. But the best part is just beginning.Yes, it was this day. Sitting in the classroom on the first day of school, the typhoon had just brushed past the sky, and there were puddles of water at the school gate.Sansan wore sandals and stepped into those puddles, and the cool water splashed up, and the whole Shanghai was as clear as if it had just been washed by water.At the door of the classroom, she saw a strange boy carrying a plastic colorful water bottle, tall and thin, wearing a light blue patterned sweater.It's the feeling of instant heart ischemia, isn't it?She was always nervous when she met a guy and couldn't complete the words, but she knew how different this time was.She walked past him cautiously, but couldn't help but want to turn around to see if he had looked at her more.God, he wouldn't take a second look at himself.Her shoes were wet from stepping in puddles, and mud splashed all over her calves and the hem of her skirt.Although her hair is long, she is still a mediocre and wronged girl with a mushroom head.No one would give her a second look at all, and as soon as she entered the classroom, she saw Wu Xiaoyun wearing a new white dress, her hair draped over her shoulders, as gentle as a black cat lying on her stomach.She also grew taller, but she didn't just grow bones desperately like Sansan.She was tanned too, but her skin seemed to glow, with a beautiful pink glow on both sides of her nose.She was talking to Li Jie at the next table, and they didn't lower their voices when Sansan passed by them: "Lin Yueyuan, a new transfer student." Soon she found that almost all the girls in the class were whispering "He transferred from Beijing." "I heard from my father that their family lives in an apartment in Changde." "Really, he actually lives there!" Sansan wished she could cover her ears, she sat back in front of the dusty desk as if fleeing for her life, but she still couldn't help but look up at the boy at the door of the classroom.He probably doesn't know that all the girls are already discussing him, how many diaries he will be written in at night, and soon he will become good friends with Wu Xiaoyun and the others.She knew that he belonged to them.As for her, she's just an unremarkable bad girl hanging out with Astro Boy, and she's very, very sad at the moment.